The anthropology of Christianity / edited by Fenella Cannell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cannell, Fenella.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and culture.

Ethnology--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Ethnology.

Anthropology of religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ethnographies exploring the vastly different ways that Christianity is experienced and understood by different groups around the world.

Contents:

Introduction: the anthropology of Christianity / Fenella Cannell

The eternal return of conversion: Christianity as contested domain in highland Bolivia / Olivia Harris

Renewable icons: concepts of religious power in a fishing village in South India / Cecilia Busby

Possession and confession: affliction and sacred power in colonial and contemporary Catholic South India / David Mosse

Reading as gift and writing as theft / Fenella Cannell

Materializing the self: words and gifts in the construction of charismatic Protestant identity / Simon Coleman

The effectiveness of ritual / Christina Toren

Forgetting conversion: the Summer Institute of Linguistics Mission in the Piro lived world / Peter Gow

The Bible meets the idol: writing and conversion in Biak, Irian Jaya, Indonesia / Danilyn Rutherford

Scripture study as normal science: Seventh-day Adventist practice on the east coast of Madagascar / Eva Keller

Appropriated and monolithic Christianity in Melanesia / Harvey Whitehouse

Epilogue: anxious transcendence / Webb Keane.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index.

ISBN:

9786613022417

0-8223-3608-1

1-283-02241-9

OCLC:

317335396